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security & anxiety
Karen Horney
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Search for meaning
Viktor Frankl
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power & superiority
Alfred Adler
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Karen Horney
- ►Anxiety related to security and social relationships is our fundamental drive
- ►Anxiety —feeling of being isolated and helpless
- ►Rejected Freud’s sex-based theories
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Viktor Frankl
- ►Fundamental drive is to find meaning
- ►Frankl survived a Nazi concentration
- camp during WW2
- ►Similar to humanism
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Alfred Adler
- ►Most fundamental human motive is
- drive for power / superiority
- ►Arises from feelings of inferiority
- experienced during childhood
- ►Compensation may cause a
- “superiority complex” (exaggerated
- self-importance)
- ►Extremely accomplished people can still display an “inferiority complex.
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